A 246-page thesis toward a master's degree from the University of Washington about the role of Independence in 1827-1844 as an outfitting post and starting point for western migration and commerce, including...

Chapter about John Colter (ca. 1774-1813), a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, "remembered as the white discoverer of that land of steaming wonders--The Yellowstone, now our oldest and largest...

Portrait and chapter of the book about Jean Baptiste Lucier, dit Gardipe, or Jean Lucier (~1807~1850), a Canadian fur trapper in Oregon Territory by 1830 with land near Saint Louis in the 1830s and participating...

Chapter of the book about French fur trader and mountain man Jules DeMun (1782-1843), born "a nobleman" in France and moving to Cuba and then Saint Louis in 1812, engaging in the fur trade with the Chouteau...

Chapter of the book about Pierre Dorion, Sr., a Sioux Indian interpreter on the Lewis and Clark expedition, and his son, Pierre Dorion, Jr., an Indian interpreter with Manuel Lisa and then John Jacob Astor's...

Chapter of the book about Andrew Drips (1790-1860), called here an Irish emigrant to Pennsylvania in infancy, serving in the War of 1812, and arriving in Saint Louis in 1817, and "engaged in the fur trade...

Portrait and chapter of the book on Malcolm Clark (1817-1869), a retired military officer from Indiana, traveling to Texas and then the upper Missouri territory as a fur trader in the 1830s, retiring to...

Photo and chapter of the book about Andrew Whitley Sublette, or Andrew Sublette (1808-1853), a Rocky Mountain fur trader and brother of Westport trader William Sublette. Native of Kentucky raised in Saint...

Chapter of the book about William Sherley Williams, or Old Bill Williams (1787-1849 ca.), a prominent mountain man born in North Carolina and raised near Owen's Station, Missouri in the 1790s before becoming...

Chapter of the book about and portrait of Edward Ermatinger (1797-1876, born on the island of Elba) and his brother Francis Ermatinger (1798~1860, born in Portugal), both fur traders with the Hudson's...

Chapter of the book about Robert McClellan (1770-1815), an early mountain man, "hunter, trapper, and Indian fighter" native to Maryland and moving to Saint Louis in 1801, dealing with Manuel Lisa, Wilson...

Portrait and chapter of the book about Dr. John McLoughlin (1784-1857), head of the Hudson's Bay Company in Oregon Territory (based in England) and a physician. Description of his life and career as a...

Photos (of Joseph III, his son Joseph IV, and Joseph III's place of death in Saint Joseph) and chapter of the book about Joseph Robidoux III (1783-1868), "the proprietor of the trading post at Black Snake...

Portrait and chapter of the book about Charles Keemle (1800-1865), a mountain man and fur trapper born in Philadelphia and moving to Saint Louis in 1817 as manager of the Emigrant newspaper edited by Senator...

Chapter of the book about Jacques Fournais, a French Canadian mountain man born in Quebec in the mid-1700s and exploring in Missouri by 1815, nicknamed "Old Pino." Description of his fur trapping career...

Portrait and chapter of the book about Louis Robidoux (1796-1868), a fur trader in New Mexico (starting in 1823) and brother of Joseph Robidoux III. Native of the Saint Louis area, namesake of "Mount Robidoux,...

Portrait and chapter of the book about Michel Sylvestre Cerre, or Michel Cerre (1802-1860), a French mountain man and Rocky Mountain fur trader from Saint Louis. He started on the Santa Fe Trail in the...

Photo of and chapter of the book about Friday the Araphaho, an Indian companion of Thomas Fitzpatrick on the Santa Fe Trail, rescued as a boy in 1831 and becoming a fur trader by 1844 and later an Indian...

Photo and chapter of the book about Albert Gallatin Boone, or Albert Boone (1806-1884), grandson of Daniel Boone and fur trapper, Indian trader, Westport businessman, slaveholder, and Santa Fe trader,...

Photo and chapter of the book about Mariano Medina (~1810-1878), a "Mexican Mountain Man" born in Taos (then in Mexico) and moving to Oregon Territory in the 1840s and around Denver in the 1850s as a fur...